Scilab Function
Last update : Jun 1999

fileinfo - Provides information about a file

### Calling Sequence

  `[x,ierr]=fileinfo(file)`

### Parameters

- `file`: a character string, the file pathname
- `x`: an integer vector of size 6 containing information or an empty matrix if file does not exist.
- `ierr`: error indicator, 0, if no error has occured

### Description

x=fileinfo(file) returns

  x(1): The file size
  x(2): The file mode
  x(3): The user id
  x(4): the group id
  x(5): The device number
  x(6): The date of last modification
  x(7): The date of last change
  x(8): The date of last access
  x(9): The device type (if inode device)
  x(10): The blocksize for filesystem I/O
  x(11): The number of blocks allocated
  x(12): The inode
  x(13): The number of hard links

### Reference

This function is an interface to the C function stat.

### Examples

    w=fileinfo(SCI+'/scilab.star')
    getdate(w(6))

### See Also

`getdate`, `file`, `dispfiles`, `newest`, `isdir`,

### Author

S. Steer INRIA